A Chesapeake Police SWAT team shot Collins in his right eye during a standoff in that city.

According to The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Va., Collins did not go to trial; he pleaded guilty in front of a judge. In exchange for Collins’ guilty pleas in October, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

Stipulation of facts presented in court show that Collins and Tanisha Watts broke up in January 2012 after Collins was charged with attempted malicious wounding of Derwin Watts.

On April 2, Collins was released on bond. Tanisha Watts said she bought him a bus ticket to North Carolina and sent him home.

Shortly after midnight on April 22, Collins — a father of nine children — entered Watts’ apartment and shot Temple.

Police arrived shortly after the shooting, but the door had been barricaded by a couch and chair.

While trying to escape with his mother, Derwin Watts was shot twice in the neck and back. The mother and son got outside, but Derwin Watts collapsed and died.

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CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A Pollocksville man convicted of killing two people in Virginia has received two life sentences.

The Virginian-Pilot reports that Charles Collins also was sentenced Monday in Chesapeake Circuit Court to 58 years in prison on related charges.

Collins had pleaded guilty in October 2012 to two first-degree murder counts, four abduction counts and several weapons charges.